Leadership 2.0 Dirk Verburg

Send us a Text Message.The statistics are sobering, not only do 49% of external executive hires end in failure within 18 months, but internal moves prove to be challenging as well. For instance, 40% of internal job moves involving high potentials also end in failure. Besides the fact that these failures often have a traumatic impact for the individuals involved, the costs for the organizations are huge. Not only in terms of imago and hiring costs but, more importantly, in terms of opportunity...

Send us a Text Message.‘We live in a world of organizations - and we do not understand them’ This is one of the statements Henry Mintzberg, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Management, made when I interviewed him for my Leadership 2.0 Podcast about his latest book ‘Understanding Organizations…Finally'.During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:The importance for organizations to get their structure ‘right’How Henry’s thinking about organizations has evolved in the l...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of the Surrey Business School about the role of intuition in decision-making processes.During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:1 What intuition is and what it is not2 The two types of intuition3 Adopting an Ambidextrous Mindset4 How to take important decisions in business5 Carl Jung and Intuition6 Why the intuitive mind is a slow learner7 Values and ethics in decision-making processes8 F...

Send us a Text Message.Scenario thinking enables organizations to establish possible visions of the future in the form of scenarios. This enables decision-makers to think through the different ways in which the environment of their institutions could evolve in the future, based on different sets of assumptions.One of the companies that is best known for its scenario-thinking activity is Shell. For decades, Shell’s scenarios have supported the decision-making of Shell leaders, academics,...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I am interviewing Vlad Gheorghiu about mental health in the workplace, a highly relevant topic.Why? The World Health Organization estimates that 12 billion working days are lost every year due to depression and anxiety. This costs $1 trillion in lost productivity.McKinsey research showed that ‘60 % of employees have experienced at least one mental-health challenge at some point in their lives’. According to the same study ‘Failing to address the ef...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I am interviewing Eugene Sadler-Smith about hubristic leadership. A highly relevant topic in the light of the corporate scandals we faced in the last two decades, as well as the current geo-political tensions we are seeing around us. None of these would have happened without hubristic leaders.During our conversation, Eugene and I discussed the following topics:03:00 The meaning of hubris05:05 Examples of hubristic leaders in politics and business11...